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Jun 15, 2025 2:40 PM CDT

Fake Flight Attendant Boarded Dozens of Planes

DOJ says 6-year scheme allowed Tiron Alexander, 35, to fly for free

(Newser) - A Florida man managed to fly free on dozens of flights by pretending to be a flight attendant—a scheme that has now landed him a federal conviction and the prospect of decades in prison. Tiron Alexander, 35, was found guilty on Thursday of wire fraud and unlawfully entering...

Trump Reacts to Wrongly Deported Man's US Return

President says he wants the US court system to 'show how horrible' Kilmar Abrego Garcia is

(Newser) - President Trump has weighed in on the return to the US of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador who's become a centerpiece of resistance to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Trump told reporters Friday on Air Force One that it...

Ex-Sheriff Gets a Presidential Pardon for Bribery Sentence

Trump issues pardon for Scott Jenkins, about to begin 10 years behind bars in Virginia on Tuesday

(Newser) - President Trump says he's pardoning Scott Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, who was due to start a 10-year prison sentence on Tuesday for accepting more than $75,000 in bribes. Jenkins, 53, was convicted last year of conspiracy, honest services fraud, and multiple bribery charges...

US-Boeing Deal Would Avoid Prosecution Over 737 Max

Many families of crash victims had sought a public trial

(Newser) - The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane manufacturer to avoid criminal prosecution over accusations that it misled US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed Friday. Under the "...

Mobsters Stole $83M in Amazon Cargo: DOJ

Armenian Organized Crime group allegedly had associates sign up as Amazon truck drivers

(Newser) - Amazon might want to be a bit more careful about screening its drivers. US authorities have arrested 13 individuals believed to be members or affiliates of Armenian organized-crime syndicates, accused of attempted murder, kidnapping, fraud, and stealing more than $83 million in goods from the retail giant. The individuals were...

Trump Administration Drops Local Police Investigations

Minneapolis, Louisville officials say they'll still make the changes agreed upon after notorious killings

(Newser) - The Trump administration announced Wednesday it is moving to drop lawsuits and abandon agreements intended to provide oversight of local police departments accused of abuses, including civil rights violations. The reversal applies to departments including those in Louisville and Minneapolis, NPR reports. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the death...

Andrew Cuomo Under Investigation by Justice Department

House Republicans accuse him of lying in congressional testimony

(Newser) - First the Justice Department demanded the dismissal of the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Now the department is coming after his biggest opponent as he runs for re-election, the New York Times reports. Sources tell the newspaper that the DoJ launched an investigation into former New...

NJ Congresswoman Charged After Protest at ICE Facility

Rep. LaMonica McIver was with the group that included Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

(Newser) - Criminal charges were filed Monday against Rep. LaMonica McIver, a week and a half after her involvement in a protest at an ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey. The Democrat congresswoman, whose district includes Newark, was at the facility along with two of her fellow House Democrats and Newark...

Critics on Nixed Ban for Gun Triggers: 'Lives Will Be Lost'

DOJ will now allow sale of forced-reset triggers, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more quickly

(Newser) - The Trump administration will allow the sale of forced-reset triggers, which make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly, with the federal government ending a long-standing ban as part of a settlement that also requires it to return seized devices. The agreement announced Friday by the Justice Department resolves a series of...

UnitedHealth Under Criminal Investigation: Report

DOJ investigating possible Medicare fraud, per WSJ

(Newser) - UnitedHealth Group is facing another government investigation, this one reportedly centered on possible criminal Medicare fraud. Since at least last summer, the Justice Department has been investigating the health insurance company for fraud related to its Medicare Advantage business, reports the Wall Street Journal . Medicare Advantage insurers receive extra payment...

UnitedHealth Just Pulled a CEO Switcheroo

Andrew Witty is out for 'personal reasons,' Stephen Hemsley returns to the top post he left in 2017

(Newser) - UnitedHealth just called in a familiar face after a massive earnings miss—former CEO Stephen Hemsley is back at the helm, replacing Andrew Witty, who's out effective immediately, with the company citing "personal reasons" for his departure, per the Wall Street Journal . The company is turning to...

DEA Quietly Shutters Its Body Cam Program

Move follows Trump executive order; critics say cameras' absence will pose challenges

(Newser) - The Drug Enforcement Administration has discontinued its body camera program, just four years after its launch, per an internal email seen by ProPublica . The move came quietly on April 1, without a public announcement. The agency cited a Trump administration executive order —one that Engadget notes rescinded nearly...

Trump Administration Makes Surprise Move on Mifepristone

Department of Justice is continuing Biden administration's legal course in lawsuit

(Newser) - In a perhaps surprising move from the Trump administration, the Department of Justice is continuing a legal course first plotted by the Biden administration in a case involving the abortion drug mifepristone. As CBS News reports, when the Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling in favor of the abortion pill...

They're 'Using the Civil Rights Division Against Civil Rights'

Lawyers flee DOJ office as it shifts focus to 'woke ideology,' anti-Christian bias

(Newser) - Half of the lawyers employed by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have left their jobs in recent weeks as a new director brings the office in line with President Trump's agenda, the Washington Post reports. Harmeet Dhillon, a California lawyer who represented Trump in challenging the 2020...

Online Attacks on Judge Ghostwritten by Lawyer in Case

ProPublica reports on Ed Martin, currently the interim US attorney for DC

(Newser) - When a state judge in Illinois was presiding over a political case in 2016, he became the target of a barrage of nasty insults posted online. They were posted by a woman named Priscilla Gray, but ProPublica now has new details on the real source: Ed Martin, an attorney who...

George Santos Defends Calling DOJ a 'Cabal of Pedophiles'

Former New York congressman is being sentenced on fraud charges this week

(Newser) - George Santos is defending his recent social media tirade to a federal judge who will be sentencing the disgraced former New York congressman later this week on fraud charges, the AP reports. In a lengthy letter ahead of the Friday court date, Santos, 36, said he remains "profoundly sorry"...

Chief SCOTUS Justice Pauses Order to Return Maryland Man

Justice Department claims judge exceeded authority with order on wrongly deported man

(Newser) - Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The Justice Department argued in an emergency appeal to the justices that US District Judge Paula Xinis overstepped her...

Bondi Suspends Attorney Who Admitted Deportee Error

Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni had been on Salvadoran case

(Newser) - The Justice Department told an appeals court Saturday that a judge did not have the authority to order the Trump administration to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison —and it suspended a government lawyer who admitted in court...

Ex-NFLer Accused of Running Dogfighting Kennel—Again

LeShon Johnson faces up to 105 years in prison on 21 counts

(Newser) - A former NFL running back and candidate for the 1993 Heisman Trophy is facing federal charges of running a dogfighting kennel, some two decades after he pleaded guilty to state charges for a similar offense. LeShon Johnson, convicted of dogfighting charges in Oklahoma in 2004, was arrested again this month...

Justice Department Considers Merging DEA, ATF

It's floated as part of a sweeping overhaul of the department

(Newser) - An idea under consideration at the Justice Department would merge two well-known agencies into one—the DEA and the ATF. The proposal regarding the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been floated in a new memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to department...

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